Registered General Nurse

Job Title: Registered General Nurse

Location: Douglas House Care Home, Douglas Avenue, Brixham, TQ5 9EL

Rate Of Pay: £19 Per Hour + Overtime

Information about the Role:

Working as an RGN (Registered General Nurse) you will:

• Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, and long term service users.
• Behave in a professional and discreet manner at all times and in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code.
• Be competent and confident in managing people with long term health conditions.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate interventions/treatments for service users??with complex needs.
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for service users (as appropriate).
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist service users in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Recognise and work within own competence level
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of service user interaction and consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Support, manage and guide support workers on a daily basis.
• Continual personal development to develop oneself and the role.

Necessary Experience or Qualifications:

Someone who has a real passion for caring and helping people.

• Hold a valid NMC Pin
• Ability to work on shift/rota pattern.
• Have the right to the work in the UK
• Minimum 2 years experience in a health care setting.

Information about the Service:

We specialise in supporting people who have varying needs as a result of physical & long term neurological conditions including cancer care, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, epilepsy, brain injury, Huntington’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, spina bifida & hydrocephalus and stroke. Our Registered Nurse teams are highly skilled and trained to deliver specialist and complex nursing care and have significant experience with tracheostomy, PEG/NG care, wound management and the provision of end of life care.

The full-time support we provide is flexible and designed to help build skills, inspire confidence and empower. We work directly with each individual to develop a personalised support programme based on their needs, wishes and aspirations. This includes personal care, health & wellbeing programmes, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, community engagement, enablement, volunteering and activities.

Oakleaf Recruitment are the In-House Recruitment Team for a growing group of Services and Hospitals across the UK.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £19.00 per hour